Carpeaux
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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For the rest of that day, I pondered the fate of the nameless model, and how she became a subject for Carpeaux.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2022
While visiting the Musée d’Orsay, the sculpture “Les Quatre Parties du monde soutenant la sphère céleste” by the 19th century artist Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux transfixes me.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2022
The plaster appears as a void bounded by the famous, anguished face, and suggests both the desire and futility of any effort to get “inside” the head of the unknown figure who modeled for Carpeaux.
From Washington Post • May 14, 2022
Does our looking simply extend the exploitation that Carpeaux both dramatizes and indulges?
From Washington Post • May 14, 2022
Carpeaux took him up at one time, got him commissions.
From The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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